A
deadly respiratory infection, provisionally called "severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)," is spreading quickly
around the world. Reports have come in from Canada, China,
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,
and Vietnam, prompting the World Health Organization to
issue a global alert for the first time in more than a decade

BACTERIOLOGICAL
WARFARE

Extract
from an article by James South M.A. - April 1999
"Perhaps the scariest scenario that may present a need for
a powerful, broad-spectrum antimicrobial such as Silver (Ag) is
the late 1990's threat of 'bioterrorism.' It is now widely expected
by biowarfare and terrorism experts that, whether due to small
groups of terrorists, or as a form of warfare by 'rogue'/totalitarian
nations, it is only a matter of time before 'germ warfare' is
unleashed in Europe or America (10). And if the super-germs released
have been produced in sophisticated biowarfare labs, they will
probably have been genetically altered to make them resistant
to the antibiotics normally used to treat that species of germ
- e.g. tetracycline/doxycycline normally used to treat Anthrax
(the number 1 favorite of 'biowarfare warriors' world-wide) (10).
It is interesting to note that silver - both in liquid solution
and as an airborne-aerosol - has been known since 1887 to be extremely
toxic to Anthrax spores (1,10,11,12). And it is widely reported
in the medical literature on Ag that various forms of Ag, often
at surprisingly low concentrations, routinely kills germs that
are known to be antibiotic-resistant (11,13,19,20)."

"Most
antibiotics have an optimal effectiveness against only a few different
disease germs; even broad-spectrum antibiotics may kill only 10-20
different types of bacteria. Also, most antibiotics that kill
bacteria will not kill fungus/yeasts, protozoal parasites or viruses;
antifungal antibiotics will not kill bacteria, viruses, parasites,
etc. And virtually all known viruses are immune to virtually all
known antibiotics."

(silver=Ag)

"Ag
is unique among antimicrobial agents in its broad spectrum of
action. It has been claimed to kill some 650 different disease
organisms (13). And unlike antibiotics, Ag is an 'equal opportunity
destroyer' - it doesn't discriminate, but effectively kills germs
of all major types: gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria,
spore-forming bacteria, fungus/yeasts, viruses and protozoal parasites.
Ag sulfadiazine is used almost universally in hospitals to prevent
serious burn infections (11), but it kills dozens of different
bacteria (11,14,16); it also kills 95% of 72 strains of herpesvirus
(15), as well as the protozoal parasite Plasmodium berghei (malaria)
(17). It also kills various yeasts, including several Aspergillus
varieties, Mucor pusillus, Rhizopus nigricans and 50 different
clinical isolates of Candida albicans (18)."

Do you know why do some people fall victim to serious life-threatening
infectious illnesses, while others around them remain disease
free? In Europe where the horrible brain-wasting infection called
Mad Cow Disease is now reaching epidemic proportions, it has been
noted that some family members succumb to the disease, while other
family members who have eaten the very same contaminated meat
remain in perfect health. Why? The answer is quite simple...

The
Immunity Factor

Medical experts agree that all victims of life-threatening infectious
illness have one thing in common: a weakened immune system. The
weaker your immune system, the more apt you are to contract serious
infectious illness and disease when exposed to it.

You see, particularly as you age, your immune system begins to
falter and sputter like an airplane running low on fuel. All too
often, this happens because your daily diet is deficient in the
nutrients needed to fuel a healthy immune response in the presence
of infectious microorganisms.

Therefore, as you age, it becomes absolutely vital to keep your
immune system properly fueled so that it always functions at the
highest levels it is capable of. The simple undisputed fact is
this: the stronger your immune system, the more likely you are
to remain disease-free when exposed to even the most virulent
of infectious microorganisms! This remains true whether you are
exposed through the foods you eat, the water you drink, or the
people you come into contact with.

Colloidal
Silver
Suffocates The Bugs
Primitive one-celled life uses a different method of oxygen
metabolism.
When Colloidal silver comes into contact with any virus,
fungus or bacterium it immobilizes the oxygen-metabolising
enzyme, or chemical lung.
These disease-causing pathogens suffocate and die within
minutes and are then cleared out of the body by the immune,
lymphatic and eliminatory systems.

The
following definition is from the book entitled, Colloidal Silver:
Medical Uses, Toxicology, & Manufacturing, chapter 2:
"The Different Forms of Colloidal Silver".

"A colloid
is a very small particle which remains suspended in water without
actually forming an ionic solution. A colloid of silver is a very
small particle of metallic silver suspended in water. The atomic
micro-clusters of silver atoms found in colloidal silver range
in size between approximately 0.001 and 0.01 microns." (Note:
How small is this? Approximately 1 billion of these particles
could fit into a cube 4/100th's of an inch in size! One micron
is 1/1,000,000th of a meter!) "The small size means a very
large surface area of silver per unit volume of silver. This small
size with its large surface area to volume ratio enables the surface
chemistry of silver and dramatically increases the reactivity
of silver with the substances that it comes in contact with. These
particles are smaller than the individual cells of bacteria and
some of the particles are smaller than even viruses. It is therefore
possible for the bacteria to 'engulf' or 'swallow' the silver
particles." "An 'ionic' silver compound, by contrast,
is one which will dissolve in water. Being soluble, its chemical
reactivity is even higher than that of a colloidal suspension."

In other
words, a colloidal suspension of elemental silver requires particles
so very small (that is, microscopic) that they remain suspended
in water (by nature of the positive electrical charge of the particles
and the property that particles with the same charge repel each
other.) Larger particles, or clumps of particles, (by definition,
non-colloidal) will not remain suspended and will settle due to
gravity. If the particles can be made even smaller, the particles
actually dissolve in the water, which produces a solution of silver
ions.

The
ability of silver to prevent infections and help healing
has been known for centuries. Until recently, there was
no way of producing Silver in a non-toxic "food"
form which could be ingested to work on Viral, Fungal, Parasite
& Bacterial infections from within the body.

The term
"colloidal silver" refers to a liquid containing suspended
microscopic particles of pure silver. The concentration of the
silver is usually expressed in parts per million, or ppm. One
milligram of silver per 1000ml of liquid would equal 1 ppm. This
1 ppm could be represented by one piece of silver weighing 1mg,
or by hundreds of thousands of silver particles that in total
weigh 1mg. The smaller the individual particles, the more total
particles that will be contained in the same weight of silver
and the more total surface area which is created. This distinction
is critically important, and will be discussed in depth in Section
9, Quality Control.

Findings
indicate that germs are unable to build a resistance to
colloidal silver. Multi drug resistant (M.D.R.) germs are
responsible for an ever-growing number of serious infectious
disorders.
Colloidal Silver, however has been reported to neutralise
many of these prescription-drug-resistant strains.

Is
colloidal silver a viable alternative to antibiotics as a "first
line of defense" against disease?

How
does CS work?

Simply
How Colloidal Silver Works Against A Virus
A single virus will invade a living cell of body tissue.
The pathogen will take over the nucleus of the cell and
alter its production/reproductive mechanism so as to replicate
itself instead of the enzyme, hormone or other chemical
the cell was intended to produce.

As
the virus changes the cell for its own purposes, the cell
reverts to a more primitive form of cell structure and
chemistry.
The oxygen-metabolising enzyme, or chemical lung, in the
cell wall also reverts and is vulnerable to the effect
of Colloidal Silver.

The
catalytic effect of the Colloidal Silver inhibits the
enzyme which then cannot function to bring oxygen into
the cell. The virus-producing cell now dies and is eliminated
along with the millions of cells that end their usefulness
each day.
How Colloidal Silver Works Against Bacteria.
Bacteria, which are single-celled & primitive, use
an enzyme, or chemical lung, for their oxygen metabolism.
The presence of Colloidal Silver inhibits the enzyme,
causing suffocation. The bacteria will be killed within
minutes and without any effect on the surrounding tissue
cells.

How Colloidal Silver Works Against Fungus
A fungus is a series of single cells having tiny tubes
of the material of the cell wall stretched between the
cells.
Fungus still exhibits that characteristic of any one-celled
bacterium  a chemical lung which is immobilised
by the presence of Colloidal Silver.
It takes only minutes to suffocate the attacking fungus.

Parasitic Infections
Taking larger doses spread over the day, for several days,
should interrupt the life-cycle of the tiny, worm-like
animals that burrow through a particular organ.
These parasites reproduce by laying eggs which have the
same characteristics of the oxygen-metabolising enzyme
as the primitive single-celled bacterium.
Without their oxygen supply these eggs cannot hatch, and
die.

DOES SILVER WORK AGAINST CANCER ?

The mutation of healthy cells into cancer cells occur continuously,
even in healthy bodies. But such cancer cells are destroyed by
the body's natural immune system at a rate about the same as
they occur, and when the body condition is stable, there is nothing
manifest that a healthy person would experience as cancer. Some
types of Cancer are reported to be caused by a virus. Like with
any virus, upon invading a body tissue cell it will take over
the cells reproductive chemical factory thereby forcing the cell
to replicate the virus instead, the cell will revert to the primitive
state thus enabling the Colloidal Silver to be effective and
kill the cancerous cell. A higher concentration of Colloidal
Silver means more immediate contact with any virus or other pathogen.

The article
published by the Silver Institute, "Silver, The Healthful
Metal", has this explanation of colloidal silver's biological
action:

"The
mechanism by which silver inactivates bacteria and some viruses
is not clear. Primarily, silver reacts with the bacterium's cell
wall. The cell wall of bacteria is a structure of proteins connected
by amino acids to provide it with mechanical strength and stability.
The structural proteins are called peptidoglycans. Silver reacts
with the exposed peptidoglycans, blocking their ability to transfer
oxygen (energy) into the cell thus inactivating the bacteria,
which results in expiration. If the silver ions are removed from
the cell immediately, the function of the bacteria may be restored."

"This
action of silver is not disease specific, like the synthetic
antibiotics, but cell-structure specific. Any cell that does
not possess a chemically resistant wall is available to action
by silver. This would include all bacteria and other organisms
without cell walls, for example, the extracellular viruses."

In the article
entitled, "Inside Information on Important Innovations in
Colloidal Silver Technology" we find the following explanation
of silver's mechanism of activity and the need for alternative
treatments:

"The
April 1994 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine called
for urgent action, including surveillance for early signs of drug
resistance and more disciplined use of antibiotics. Some
specialists are now willing to admit that, as infections become
harder to successfully treat with drugs, our only real
alternative may be more natural methods."

"Since
1938, silver has been standing in the wings, waiting to make a
big comeback. Not for its monetary value, but for properties inherent
in it that make it worth more than its weight in gold: silver
is a unique healing agent."

"No
known disease-causing organism can live in the presence of even
minute traces of the chemical element of metalic silver. [This
includes destructive bacteria, viruses, and fungi which, when
compared to antibiotics, is one of the things which makes silver
unique: antibiotics are specific to bacteria and, in some cases,
fungi, but never viruses-Ed.] From his bacteriological experiments
with silver, Dr. Henry Crooks has concluded, 'I know of no microbe that is not killed in laboratory experiments
in six minutes.'" (Cross referenced: Health Consciousness,
Vol 15, No. 4, "Report: Colloidal Silver" Ref. 1, p.
34. This report also states that all microbes were killed "with
a dilution of as little as five parts per million, though there
are no side effects whatsoever from higher concentrations.")

"Today
colloidal silver is being acknowledged by some to be the most
universal antibiotic natural substance. Many forms of bacteria,
viruses, and fungi utilize a specific enzyme for their metabolism.
Silver acts as a catalyst, effectively disabling the enzyme. It
has proven toxic to all species tested of fungi, bacteria, protozoa,
parasites and many viruses."

The same
article has this amazing reference:

"In
view of the rising concern about germ
warfare and the likely use of biologicals in terrorist attacks, we find
the following quote to be of more than passing interest:

'There
is little defense against this kind of attack, and what
few antidotes exist are withheld from the public as military
secrets. One of the best examples of this is Movidyn, a
substance the Soviets discovered in their satelite state
of Czechoslovakia way back in the 1950's. Movidyn is a form
of colloidal silver. One part per billion of powdered Movidyn
in water has a germicidal effect. In a study of infected
wells, it completely destroyed typhus, malaria, cholera,
and amoebic dysentery. To the astonishment of the Soviet
military, Movidyn also disinfected every germ warfar bacteria
in the Soviet arsenal, even their newest designer poisons.'
[Source: Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews, Copywrite
1994, St. Martin's Press, New York]"

This article
continues:

"Colloidal
silver has been successfully tested for decades at numerous laboratories
in the U.S. and abroad. It has been found
to effective on microbiological organisms because it bears
an electrical charge opposite to that of the pathogens. One researcher,
Alfred Searle, in describing the effects of silver, states that
for internal administration, either orally or hypodermically,
silver has the advantage of being 'rapidly fatal to parasites,
both bacterial and otherwise, without any toxic action on the
host.' N.R. Thompson of the Runcorn Health Laboratory in Cheshire,
England states, 'To primitive life forms,
silver is as toxic as the most powerful chemical disinfectants.'"

From
www.healthnews.com we quote the following from the article entitled, "Colloidal Silver Fabulous
Facts"

"The
presence of colloidal silver near a virus, fungus, bacterium or
any single celled pathogen disables its oxygen metabolism enzyme,
its chemical lung, so to say. Within a few minutes, the pathogen
suffocates and dies and is cleared out of the body by the immune,
lymphatic and elimination systems."

"Unlike
pharmaceutical antibiotics which destroy beneficial enzymes, Colloidal
Silver leaves these tissue-cell enzymes intact as they are radically
different from the enzymes of primitive single-celled life. Thus
Colloidal Silver is absolutely safe for humans, reptiles, plants,
and all multi-celled living matter."

"Colloidal
Silver is the result of an electro-magnetic process that pulls
microscopic particles from a larger piece of silver into a liquid
such as water. These microscopic particles can more easily penetrate
and travel throughout the body. Colloidal Silver works as a catalyst,
disabling the enzyme that all one celled bacteria, fungi, and
viruses use for their oxygen metabolism. In
short, the bad guys suffocate."SOME
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This same
article continues, "Colloidal Silver is painless on burns,
cuts, abrasions, in open wounds, in the nostrils for a stuffy
nose, and even in the eyes because, unlike antiseptics, it does
not destroy tissue cells."

"Inside
the body, silver forms no toxic compounds nor reacts with anything
other than a germ's oxygen metabolization. Colloidal
Silver is truly a safe, natural remedy for many of mankind's ills. It would appear highly unlikely that even germ warfare agents
could survive an encounter with Colloidal Silver, since viruses
like Ebola and Hunta, or even the dreaded 'flesh-eating bacteria'
are in the end merely hapless viruses and bacteria. To top it
off, Colloidal Silver is non-toxic, making it safe for both children
and adults, as well as pets. In short, anything bigger than a
one-celled animal seems to like it."

Dhyana Coburn
is the coauthor of "The Wonders of Colloidal Silver".
In a separate article entitled "Colloidal Silver - A Healthy
Silver Lining" she adds more information as to the mechanism
by which colloidal silver interacts only with harmful microbes:

"Colloidal
silver kills invading microbes by dissolving an enzyme that metabolizes
oxygen of primitive organisms. The process is an electrochemical
reaction. The cell can't breathe, then suffocates and dies. That's
why it works on all types of germs, including the super-germs.
Metallic and chelated minerals carry a negative charge, but colloidal
bioelectric minerals carry a positive charge. Therefore, another
way colloidal silver inhibits germ growth is that the positive
charge on the colloidal silver (particles) binds up with the negative
charge on the pathogen. This causes an interuption of the biological
function of the organism, which then cannot reproduce."

The
article continues, "Former teacher of physics and chemistry,
Howard Mitchell of Virginia, recently conducted a series of experiments
with colloidal silver. He found that CS has no effects on acidophilus,
the 'good bacteria' found in the stomach. Mitchell used concentrations
forty times higher than what might be expected to destroy other
forms of bacteria. It shows that even in large dosages, the intestinal
flora will flourish. In fact, there is speculation that the silver
ions may be advantageous in stimulating a vigorous growth of beneficial
bacteria, helping to boost the immune system."

From
Colloidal Silver: Medical Uses, Toxicology, & Manufacturing,
Chapter 1, "Brief History of Silver and Silver Colloids in
Medicine": "Recently, with the development of antibiotic
resistance in many diseases and the increase in the new strains
of bacteria and viruses worldwide, there is renewed interest in
silver. Large companies are developing and introducing new compounds
for a variety of anti-microbial applications, including protection
against the spread of the AIDS virus." MORE

From the
above information it is clear that low concentrations (such
as 10 part per million) of a true colloidal silver solution
(that is, a clear solution containing suspended, sub-microscopic
particles) is a safe product. Literally GALLONS of such a solution
would need to be consumed to create a toxic condition, and then
only if the rate of intake overloaded the body's natural elimination
processes. So the next question is how much colloidal silver
is recommended to achieve a health benefit?

Laboratory
Tests ShowColloidal Silver Is Effective Against
Infective Agents
Colloidal Silver cannot be sold as anything but a food supplement
and therefore cannot be sold as a treatment for any medical
conditions, but this does not mean that you cannot be given
an example of the sort of infective agents that lab tests
reveal cannot survive in the presence of Colloidal Silver.

From
Flu to Ear infections & From Tuberculosis to the HIV
virus.
From Herpes to Hospital infections, The list is endless!!!

Many
people carry infections for years that simply make them
feel down & "below par". These are often so
unspecific that they go undiagnosed.
Taking Colloidal Silver daily as a food supplement could
prevent this.

Silver is effective against yeasts
including S. cerevisiae Yeast, Montrachet Yeast.
A background dose of Colloidal Silver taken daily as a food
supplement could conceivably prevent the growth of yeast
indefinitely.

Colloidal
Silver - Articles
The following articles can help give you a wider perspective and
insight into the many attributes and unique properties of colloidal
silver.